Would I always feel so small that it hurt and that even the greatest outcry roaring from my throat was, in reality, just a whimper? Would my footsteps always stop so suddenly and sink into the footpath?
Markus ZusakTags: fears doubts small unheard
A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it.
Markus ZusakTags: life waiting happening existing
I walked home, seeing all my doubt from the other side. Have you ever seen that? Like when you go on holiday. On the way back, everything is the same but it looks a little different than it did on the way. It's because you're seeing it backwards.
Markus ZusakTags: life perception doubt view
The word maybe was beginning to annoy me, because the only thing that was fixed was that maybe would be with me forever.
Markus ZusakA couple of them were school beauty-queen pretty while a few were that more real-looking type. A realer kind of pretty.
Markus ZusakTags: beauty pretty real beauty-queens
When you looked out my window you could see the whole city crouched under a blanket of car smog.
Markus ZusakOne good punch from Rube on me would send the sky into my head and the clouds into my lungs. I just always tried to stay up.
Markus ZusakTags: victory fighting defeat standing
Through the overcast sky, I looked up and saw the tin-can planes. I watched their stomachs open and drop the bombs casually out. They were off target, of course. They were often off target.
Markus ZusakIf a guy like you can stand up and do what you did then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.
And that's when I realize: I'm not the messenger at all. I'm the message.
I called back, but not loud enough, probably. I don't like making noise in public
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